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City and Christopher Street West To Host Annual Pride Celebration in West Hollywood

Post Date:May 29, 2014 4:53 PM

The 2014 LA PRIDE Celebration in West Hollywood will take place between Friday, June 6, 2014 and Sunday, June 8, 2014, bringing together thousands of members of the LGBT community and allies to celebrate pride and unity. Produced by Christopher Street West and sponsored in part by the City of West Hollywood, the celebration will include the PRIDE Festival at West Hollywood Park, as well as the Dyke March and Lavender Menace Celebration of Women. In addition, the PRIDE Parade along Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood is one of the largest gay pride parades in the country. Concurrent, is the City’s One City One Pride Arts Festival, which offers events throughout the month of June celebrating marriage equality with the theme “I Do.”

On Wednesday, June 4, 2014, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., the City of West Hollywood, Christopher Street West, and West Hollywood Mayor John D’Amico will kick off things with a community celebration including an open house of the art and culture pavilion, live entertainment, a continuation of the monthly Outfest West Hollywood screening series, and an open gym sponsored by WeHo Dodgeball. This kick-off event will take place at multiple locations in and around the West Hollywood Library, located at 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard and West Hollywood Park, located at 647 N. San Vicente Boulevard. Tours of the West Hollywood Library and its current Love is Love: The Five-Year Road to Marriage photo exhibition will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Admission is free.

On Friday, June 6, 2014, the WeHo Dyke March & Lavender Menace Celebration of Women will take place at West Hollywood Park, located at 647 N. San Vicente Boulevard. A social hour and presentations will begin at 6 p.m. and the Dyke March will begin at 7 p.m. For more information on this event view the flyer [PDF].

On Saturday, June 7, 2014 and Sunday, June 8, 2014, the PRIDE Festival will take place at West Hollywood Park, located at 647 N. San Vicente Boulevard — on Saturday from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m.; and on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Enjoy live entertainment on multiple stages, headline performances, all-new dance venues, numerous exhibitors, and food-and-drink vendors.

On Sunday, June 8, 2014, the PRIDE Parade will take place. It steps-off at 11 a.m. from Crescent Heights Boulevard and travels westbound along Santa Monica Boulevard just past the main entrance of the festival at San Vicente Boulevard, ending at Robertson Boulevard. With more than 400,000 participants, spectators, and marchers, this emotionally charged experience is not to be missed.

The City of West Hollywood has launched an interactive map of Pride Month events at www.weho.org/pridemap.